NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI

A RARE SUCCULENT IN PULEGOSO, MODEL 2475, CIRCA 1929

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NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI
A RARE SUCCULENT IN PULEGOSO, MODEL 2475, CIRCA 1929
blown and modeled bubble glass
13 in. (33 cm.) high
unmarked

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Lot Essay

cf. L'Art Vivant, december 1930, p. 960.
M. Barovier, Napoleone Martinuzzi Venini 1925-1931, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2013, p. 286 for the design and a period photograph of another example.

Recorded in a hitherto unknown catalogue in the archive of the late Anna Venini-Diaz de Santillana, Milan.

CAPTION: Another cactus of this model, L'Art Vivant, december 1930, p. 960.

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